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Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna switching board ?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna switching board ?
From: "Roger (K8RI)" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:08:48 -0400
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On 6/16/2010 11:47 AM, Ron W8RJL wrote:
> Patch panel is good idea and I am leaning that direction. They make male UHF
> and N connectors with no threads so you can just push them on the panel
> female connector.
I've used those, but they the ones I had tended to loosen up in a few 
months to a year.
>   I built a patch panel like that when I worked at a city
> radio lab. It worked just fine.  You can actually make two panels. One for
> antenna termination and one for equipment terminations. They need to be
> isolated electrically and far enough apart to reduce chance of lightning
> jumping from one to the other (NO common ground).
I make sure to ground everything to a common ground single point ground.

73

Roger (K8RI)
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